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Mathematics Is a Gentleman's Art: Analysis and Synthesis in American College Geometry Teaching, 1790-1840 Amy K
Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2000 Mathematics is a gentleman's art: Analysis and synthesis in American college geometry teaching, 1790-1840 Amy K. Ackerberg-Hastings Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Higher Education and Teaching Commons, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons, and the Science and Mathematics Education Commons Recommended Citation Ackerberg-Hastings, Amy K., "Mathematics is a gentleman's art: Analysis and synthesis in American college geometry teaching, 1790-1840 " (2000). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 12669. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/12669 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margwis, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. in the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. -
Memoirs of the Royal Society. Vol. 1
MEMOIRS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. VOL. 1. -------------------- {506} {10th/2}[reversed] SOCIETATI LITERARIӔ SPALDINGENSI D.D. W. Stukeley rector D. Georgii in area Reginensi. 1749. -------------------- Meetings of the royal society {These Memoires were read at the under written Meeting of SGS} {Minute B.5.V} 1. 13 novr. 1740. pa. 4. {15. Mar. 1749./ 56 2. 20. 10. 22. 56.b 3. 11. decr. 12. 29 1750 ibidem 4. 18. 14. 5. April ibidem 5. 8. jan. 1740-1 17. 12 57. 6. 15. 19. 19 5.b 7. 22. 21. 26 ibidem 8. 29. 23. 3 May ibidem 9. 5. feb. 26. 10 ibidem 10. 12. 29. 7 June 58 11. 19. 30. 14 58.b 12. 26. 34. 28 59 13. 4. march 35. 12 July ibidem 19 14. 12. 38. 19. 59.b 15. 19. 41. 26. 60. 16. 26. march 1741 43. 2. August. - b 17. 9 april 46. 9. 62 18. 16 47. 16. ibidem 19. 23 48. 23. 63. 20. 30 49. 30 - b 21. 7 May 51. Sept. 6 - 22. 14 53. 13 23. 12 november 56. 4. October 65 24. 20. 58. 22. Novr. 69 25. 26. 60. 29 ibidem 26. 10. december 63. 13. Decber 70} -------------------- MEMOIRS of the ROYAL SOCIETY. {in LONDON} taken memoriter by Wm: Stukeley {Animas fapientiores fieri quiefcendo} -------------------- [1] MEMOIRS of the Royal Society To Maurice Johnson1 esqr. founder, & per {Pr.} petual secretary of the Gentlemans literary society, in Spalding Lincolnshire. [{who recieved them by the Carryer with other Books from his Bookbinder 9 March 1749/50 & delivered them to Dr Green2 secretary who read the same to the Company at the Societys meetings as numberd and marked before them and in the minutes}]3 For the entertainment of the company that meet weekly, at your Society, held in the old seat of the Hobsons my ancestors; I have transcribed my papers of what I recollect, by memory, after our entertainment, at Crane court4. -
The Wyley History of the Geologists' Association in the 50 Years 1958
THE WYLEY HISTORY OF THE GEOLOGISTS’ ASSOCIATION 1958–2008 Leake, Bishop & Howarth ASSOCIATION THE GEOLOGISTS’ OF HISTORY WYLEY THE The Wyley History of the Geologists’ Association in the 50 years 1958–2008 by Bernard Elgey Leake, Arthur Clive Bishop ISBN 978-0900717-71-0 and Richard John Howarth 9 780900 717710 GAHistory_cover_A5red.indd 1 19/08/2013 16:12 The Geologists’ Association, founded in 1858, exists to foster the progress and Bernard Elgey Leake was Professor of Geology (now Emeritus) in the diffusion of the science of Geology. It holds lecture meetings in London and, via University of Glasgow and Honorary Keeper of the Geological Collections in the Local Groups, throughout England and Wales. It conducts field meetings and Hunterian Museum (1974–97) and is now an Honorary Research Fellow in the School publishes Proceedings, the GA Magazine, Field Guides and Circulars regularly. For of Earth and Ocean Sciences in Cardiff University. He joined the GA in 1970, was further information apply to: Treasurer from 1997–2009 and is now an Honorary Life Member. He was the last The Executive Secretary, sole editor of the Journal of the Geological Society (1972–4); Treasurer (1981–5; Geologists’ Association, 1989–1996) and President (1986–8) of the Geological Society and President of the Burlington House, Mineralogical Society (1998–2000). He is a petrologist, geochemist, mineralogist, Piccadilly, a life-long mapper of the geology of Connemara, Ireland and a Fellow of the London W1J 0DU Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has held research Fellowships in the Universities of phone: 020 74349298 Liverpool (1955–7), Western Australia (1985) and Canterbury, NZ (1999) and a e-mail: [email protected] lectureship and Readership at the University of Bristol (1957–74). -
Sir Charles Lyell and the Species Question
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society Sir Charles Lyell and the Species Question: Lyell's reflections on species reveal the gathering crisis in science after 1850 brought about by fossil discoveries, growing knowledge of geographical distribution, and the ideas of Darwin and Wallace Author(s): Leonard G. Wilson Reviewed work(s): Source: American Scientist, Vol. 59, No. 1 (January–February 1971), pp. 43-55 Published by: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27829436 . Accessed: 12/12/2012 22:22 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to American Scientist. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded on Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:22:44 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Leonard G. Wilson Sir Charles Lyell and the Species Question LyelVs reflectionson species reveal the gathering crisis in science after 1850 broughtabout byfossil discoveries, growingknowledge of geographical distribution, and the ideas ofDarwin and Wallace Ever since 1832 when, in the second volume of his Principles of Geology (7), he had discussed Lamarck's theory with devastating criticism, Sir Charles Lyell had been committed to the view that species were real and stable entities that might be driven to ex tinction but could not be altered. -
Statutes and Rules for the British Museum
(ft .-3, (*y Of A 8RI A- \ Natural History Museum Library STATUTES AND RULES BRITISH MUSEUM STATUTES AND RULES FOR THE BRITISH MUSEUM MADE BY THE TRUSTEES In Pursuance of the Act of Incorporation 26 George II., Cap. 22, § xv. r 10th Decembei , 1898. PRINTED BY ORDER OE THE TRUSTEES LONDON : MDCCCXCYIII. PRINTED BY WOODFALL AND KINDER, LONG ACRE LONDON TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. PAGE Meetings, Functions, and Privileges of the Trustees . 7 CHAPTER II. The Director and Principal Librarian . .10 Duties as Secretary and Accountant . .12 The Director of the Natural History Departments . 14 CHAPTER III. Subordinate Officers : Keepers and Assistant Keepers 15 Superintendent of the Reading Room . .17 Assistants . 17 Chief Messengers . .18 Attendance of Officers at Meetings, etc. -19 CHAPTER IV. Admission to the British Museum : Reading Room 20 Use of the Collections 21 6 CHAPTER V, Security of the Museum : Precautions against Fire, etc. APPENDIX. Succession of Trustees and Officers . Succession of Officers in Departments 7 STATUTES AND RULES. CHAPTER I. Of the Meetings, Functions, and Privileges of the Trustees. 1. General Meetings of the Trustees shall chap. r. be held four times in the year ; on the second Meetings. Saturday in May and December at the Museum (Bloomsbury) and on the fourth Saturday in February and July at the Museum (Natural History). 2. Special General Meetings shall be sum- moned by the Director and Principal Librarian (hereinafter called the Director), upon receiving notice in writing to that effect signed by two Trustees. 3. There shall be a Standing Committee, standing . • Committee. r 1 1 t-» • 1 t> 1 consisting 01 the three Principal 1 rustees, the Trustee appointed by the Crown, and sixteen other Trustees to be annually appointed at the General Meeting held on the second Saturday in May. -
Article James Croll – Aman‘Greater Far Than His Work’ Kevin J
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,1–20, 2021 Article James Croll – aman‘greater far than his work’ Kevin J. EDWARDS1,2* and Mike ROBINSON3 1 Departments of Geography & Environment and Archaeology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK. 2 McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. 3 Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Lord John Murray House, 15–19 North Port, Perth PH1 5LU, UK. *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT: Popular and scholarly information concerning the life of James Croll has been accumu- lating slowly since the death in 1890 of the self-taught climate change pioneer. The papers in the current volume offer thorough assessments of topics associated with Croll’s work, but this contribution seeks to provide a personal context for an understanding of James Croll the man, as well as James Croll the scho- lar of sciences and religion. Using archival as well as published sources, emphasis is placed upon selected components of his life and some of the less recognised features of his biography.These include his family history, his many homes, his health, participation in learned societies and attitudes to collegiality, finan- cial problems including the failed efforts to secure a larger pension, and friendship. Life delivered a mix- ture of ‘trials and sorrows’, but it seems clear from the affection and respect accorded him that many looked upon James Croll as a ‘man greater far than his work’. KEY WORDS: Croil–Croyle–Croll, family history, friendship, health, homes, income, learned societies, pension. -
The North-West Highlands and Their Teachings/ by Pro Fessor J
419 ORDINARY MEETING. FRIDAY, JULY 4TH, 1884. HENRY HICKS, ESQ., M.D., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. The list of donations to the library since the last meeting was read, and the thanks of the Association were accorded to the donors. The following were elected members of the Association : Miss Mary Forster and F. A. Harrison. The following papers were read :- 'On the North-west Highlands and their teachings/ by Pro fessor J. F. Blake, M.A., F.G.S. 'On the Stratigraphy and Metamorphism of the Rocks of the Durness-Eriboll district,' by Professor Charles Lapworth, LL.D., F.G.S., a letter to J. H. Teall, Esq., M.A., F.G.S., by whom it was read on Professor Lapworth's behalf. , On the Geology of South Devon, with special reference to the Long Excursion,' by W. A. E. Ussher, F.G.S. THE NORTH-WEST HIGHLANDS AND THEIR TEAOHINGS. By REV. J. F. BLAKE, M.A., F.G.S., Professor of Natural Science, University College, Nottingham. Those who have watched by the advancing tide will have seen that ever and anon a larger wave than usual comes rushing round some unrecovered spot and secures it for the sea j and so the tide comes in. Such waves occur in science, and if, as in geology, there be several fields, one after another thus absorbs the attention of the advancing army. So Palooontology has had its day, and Petrology is in its dawn. As once all hands were eager for the fossil, now all eyes are anxious for the slice. -
Archibald Geikie (1835–1924): a Pioneer Scottish Geologist, Teacher, and Writer
ROCK STARS Archibald Geikie (1835–1924): A Pioneer Scottish Geologist, Teacher, and Writer Rasoul Sorkhabi, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, USA; [email protected] years later, but there he learned how to write reports. Meanwhile, he read every geology book he could find, including John Playfair’s Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory, Henry de la Beche’s Geological Manual, Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology, and Hugh Miller’s The Old Red Sandstone. BECOMING A GEOLOGIST In the summer of 1851, while the Great Exhibition in London was attracting so many people, Geikie decided instead to visit the Island of Arran in the Clyde estuary and study its geology, aided by a brief report by Andrew Ramsay of the British Geological Survey. Geikie came back with a report titled “Three weeks in Arran by a young geologist,” published that year in the Edinburgh News. This report impressed Hugh Miller so much that the renowned geologist invited its young author to discuss geology over a cup of tea. Miller became Geikie’s first mentor. In this period, Geikie became acquainted with local scientists and pri- vately studied chemistry, mineralogy, and geology under Scottish naturalists, such as George Wilson, Robert Chambers, John Fleming, James Forbes, and Andrew Ramsay—to whom he con- fessed his desire to join the Geological Survey. In 1853, Geikie visited the islands of Skye and Pabba off the coast Figure 1. Archibald Geikie as a young geolo- of Scotland and reported his observations of rich geology, including gist in Edinburgh. (Photo courtesy of the British Geological Survey, probably taken in finds of Liassic fossils. -
Proceedings Geological Society of London
Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at University of California-San Diego on February 18, 2016 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. SESSION 1884-851 November 5, 1884. Prof. T. G. Bo~sEY, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. William Lower Carter, Esq., B.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge, was elected a Fellow of the Society. The SECRETARYaunouneed.bhat a water-colour picture of the Hot Springs of Gardiner's River, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming Territory, U.S.A., which was painted on the spot by Thomas Moran, Esq., had been presented to the Society by the artist and A. G. Re"::~aw, Esq., F.G.S. The List of Donations to the Library was read. The following communications were read :-- 1. "On a new Deposit of Pliocene Age at St. Erth, 15 miles east of the Land's End, Cornwall." By S. V. Wood, Esq., F.G.S. 2. "The Cretaceous Beds at Black Ven, near Lyme Regis, with some supplementary remarks on the Blackdown Beds." By the Rev. W. Downes, B.A., F.G.S. 3. "On some Recent Discoveries in the Submerged Forest of Torbay." By D. Pidgeon, Esq., F.G.S. The following specimens were exhibited :- Specimens exhibited by Searles V. Wood, Esq., the Rev. W. Downes, B.A., and D. Pidgeon, Esq., in illustration of their papers. a Downloaded from http://jgslegacy.lyellcollection.org/ at University of California-San Diego on February 18, 2016 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. A worked Flint from the Gravel-beds (? Pleistocene) in the Valley of the Tomb of the Kings, near Luxor (Thebes), Egypt, ex- hibited by John E. -
Palaeolithic Continental Europe
World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson, Archaeopress 2013, page 216-239 10 Palaeolithic Continental Europe Alison Roberts 10.1 Introduction The collection of Palaeolithic material from Continental Europe in the Pitt Rivers Museum (PRM) is almost of equivalent size to the collection from the British Isles (see Chapter 9), but is not nearly as well known or as well published. It consists mainly of material from France that seems to have been an under-acknowledged highlight of the PRM archaeological collections for most of the 20th century. Despite the obvious care with which French Palaeolithic material was acquired by the museum, especially during the curatorship of Henry Balfour, the collection has mainly been used for teaching and display, rather than as a research resource. Due to the historic lack of work on the collection so far, this chapter presents a preliminary overview, to orient and inform future research, rather than a full account of the collections. The exact numbers of Palaeolithic objects from Europe are difficult to state with certainty due to factors such as unquantified batch registration of groups of objects in the past, and missing or incorrect cultural attributions in the documentation. However, it is estimated that there are c. 3,760 Palaeolithic objects from continental Europe in the PRM, c. 534 of which are from the founding collection of the PRM (PRMFC)(1). The majority of the material comprises c. 3,585 objects from France (Figure 10.1), with smaller collections from Belgium (c. 63 objects), Italy (c. -
George P. Merrill Collection, Circa 1800-1930 and Undated
George P. Merrill Collection, circa 1800-1930 and undated Finding aid prepared by Smithsonian Institution Archives Smithsonian Institution Archives Washington, D.C. Contact us at [email protected] Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Historical Note.................................................................................................................. 1 Descriptive Entry.............................................................................................................. 2 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 3 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 4 Series 1: PHOTOGRAPHS, CORRESPONDENCE AND RELATED MATERIAL CONCERNING INDIVIDUAL GEOLOGISTS AND SCIENTISTS, CIRCA 1800-1920................................................................................................................. 4 Series 2: PHOTOGRAPHS OF GROUPS OF GEOLOGISTS, SCIENTISTS AND SMITHSONIAN STAFF, CIRCA 1860-1930........................................................... 30 Series 3: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE TERRITORIES (HAYDEN SURVEYS), CIRCA 1871-1877.............................................................................................................. -
Editorial This Issue Contains a Profile of John Stevens Henslow, Darwin’S Cambridge Friend and Mentor (Page 4)
THE LINNEAN 1 Editorial This issue contains a profile of John Stevens Henslow, Darwin’s Cambridge friend and mentor (page 4). Henslow was not only responsible for Darwin’s appointment to HMS Beagle but also arranged to receive all tlie collected material shipped home to Cambridge. Moreover at the conclusion of the voyage he arranged for Darwin to be given a Treasury grant of &I,000 towards the publication of his zoological fiiidings. During the entire five years of the Beagle s voyage, Henslow corresponded with Darwin proffering advice and guidance and later publishing some of Darwin’s geological observations in the Cambridge Philosophical Society Proceedings.’ Darwin’s great debt of gratitude to Henslow is quite apparent from the tone of his letters to his old tutor: “I always like advice from you, and no one whom I have the luck to know is more capable of giving it than yourself. Recollect, when you write, that I am a sort ofprotkgge‘of yours, and that it is your bounden duty to lecture me.” (Devonport, Dec. 3 1831) “I will say farewell, till the day arrives when I shall see my Master in Natural History and can tell him how grateful I feel for his kindness and friendship.” (Sydney, Jan. 1836) And then when telling Henslow about his geological specimens: “My dear Henslow, I do long to see you, you have been the kindest friend to me that ever man possessed.” (Shrewsbury, Oct. 6 1836) The year after the Beagle ’s return Henslow was appointed rector of Hitcham, Suffolk (1837) and from that point onwards as Darwin noted: “he cared somewhat less about science and more for his parishioners.” Finally, in the last year of his life, Henslow came to the assistance of his student one last time by acting as Chairman of the 1860 British Association meeting at which Huxley (and Hooker and Lubbock) took up the cudgel on Darwin’s behalf.